Link Love: On The Road

I’m writing Link Love from a truck stop this week, somewhere in the southwest United States on the way to LA for the pen show. This is my first multi-day, cross-country pen show trip. Traveling puts a pause on the world and while simultaneously hyperfocusing everything. We have no time and nothing but time. It’s a strange in-between that full of anticipation and anxiousness.

Pens:

• Getting the white glove treatment with my first Montblanc nib exchange (via UK fountain pens)
• Regalia Writing Labs Steel Flex Nib (via Gourmet Pens)
• Nakaya Decapod Twist vs PenBBS 380 (via Hand Over That Pen)
• News: M101N Grey-Blue (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
• Exploring Stock Stub Nibs, Part II: Higher-end Options (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Hero 616 Standard “Bobby Launch” Fountain Pen |(via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Video: My Favorite Pens – Waterman 12 – Jacob Ruppert (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• Who Backed the Baux Pens? This Guy. (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Ink:

• Diamine Robert (via Mountain of Ink)
• Points of Interest: Fire on Fire Edition (via Looped Square)
• Papier Plume Eleven (via Mountain of Ink)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Taotree Dot Grid Notebook (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• New! Lighter dot grid pages in the Rhodia Goalbook (via Rhodia Drive)
• Notebooks from My Cross-Country Road Trip (via Notebook Stories)
• Write Notepads ZHŪ Winter Edition. (via Pencil Revolution)
• Blackout Pocket Notebooks! (via Notebook Joy)
• Marie Curie’s Notebook (via The Cramped)

Art & Creativity:

• Vintage Colored Pencils: A. W. Faber “Castell” Polychromos (Contemporary Polychromos Comparison) (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• What Makes A Watercolor Painting Really Special? (via Doodlewash)
• Lili Wronker, Calligrapher and Illustrator, Is Dead at 94 (via The New York Times)

Other Interesting Things:

• The religion of walking (via Austin Kleon)
• Q&A With Richard Koehler, Art Director at Retro 51 (via The Clicky Post)
• How To Improve Your Handwriting (via Fountain Pen Love)
• Valentine Printables Round-Up (via Letter Writers Alliance)
• Confessions of a Letterhead Collector (via Kottke)
• Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages (via The New York Times)
• Podcast: “Find Your People with Naomi Bulger” (via Art Supply Posse)
• Podcast: “Snail Mail Superstar Sara McNally” (via Art Supply Posse)